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Scott Small: The Point of Forgetting

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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What Does a Plump Hippocampus Mean?

The hippocampus is the click save function in our brains. If i want to save that information and store it in my hard drive, keep the memory alive, i need to click save. Every computer program has that click save function, which actively takes that information from my screen and moves it to my hard drive. And so if there are few people, who really, because of an accident or an infectious disease, their hippocampus is removed. As long as they're their computer is on, the memoryis in their memory and in their minds. But the second they're pulled away for a few minutes, or if you see them to morrow, it's like they've seen you for the first

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